A five-center rather than a four-center transition state for alkene insertion into the metal-alkyl bond of a cationic binuclea yttrium complex

Organometallics

Volumn 25, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 6162-6165

  Luo, Yi ^a,b   Hou, Zhaomin ^a,b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPLEXATION; ETHYLENE; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

INSERTION REACTIONS; ISOPRENE; METAL CENTERS; TRANSITION STATES;

YTTRIUM;

EID: 33846376108     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om060702i     Document Type: Article

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